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The only and one way to say what abstract art or art-as-art is, is to say what it is not.

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Ad Reinhardt
Age: 53 †
Born: 1913
Born: December 24
Died: 1967
Died: August 30
Artist
Collagist
Painter
Printmaker
University Teacher
Buffalo
New York
Adolph Frederick Reinhardt
Adolph Frederick. Reinhardt
Adolph F. Reinhardt
Adolph Dietmar Friedrich Reinhardt
Adolph Dietrich Friedrich Reinhardt
Ad F. Reinhardt
Abstraction
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